LUMN vs. VOCL, CIFR, NVEE, STGW, BBU, DSGR, STER, IAS, SCS, and AVPT
Should you be buying Lumen Technologies stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Lumen Technologies include Creatd (VOCL), Cipher Mining (CIFR), NV5 Global (NVEE), Stagwell (STGW), Brookfield Business Partners (BBU), Distribution Solutions Group (DSGR), Sterling Check (STER), Integral Ad Science (IAS), Steelcase (SCS), and AvePoint (AVPT). These companies are all part of the "business services" sector.
Lumen Technologies (NYSE:LUMN) and Creatd (NASDAQ:VOCL) are both small-cap business services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, community ranking, valuation, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability and dividends.
Lumen Technologies received 576 more outperform votes than Creatd when rated by MarketBeat users.
Lumen Technologies has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Creatd has a beta of 4.05, suggesting that its share price is 305% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Creatd had 6 more articles in the media than Lumen Technologies. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Creatd and 8 mentions for Lumen Technologies. Creatd's average media sentiment score of -0.05 beat Lumen Technologies' score of -0.13 indicating that Creatd is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Creatd has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Lumen Technologies. Creatd is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Lumen Technologies, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Lumen Technologies currently has a consensus target price of $1.81, indicating a potential upside of 16.03%. Given Lumen Technologies' higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Lumen Technologies is more favorable than Creatd.
Lumen Technologies has a net margin of -70.74% compared to Creatd's net margin of -1,086.31%. Lumen Technologies' return on equity of 4.85% beat Creatd's return on equity.
66.2% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by institutional investors. 0.8% of Lumen Technologies shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 11.8% of Creatd shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Lumen Technologies beats Creatd on 8 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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